Tottenham Hotspur head coach Ange Postecoglou has suggested that the biggest mistake of their season attacked with too much strength at the start of the year.
Spurs are currently 14th in the Premier League, after they have lost 15 of their 29 games and travel to Chelsea on Thursday after a hiatus almost three weeks.
After having won only three of their last 13 games in the Premier League, they are 21 years old for their lowest league position since he became 14th in 2003-04.
“I think the Domino effect of certain things happens. You try to judge things while you continue, but my tendency is that we probably got the start of the year wrong,” Postecoglou said.
“Nowadays it is always challenging for football players.
“Then you add to the mix that we have previously lost a number of important players and it feels like we have been chasing our tail since then and we have not been able to get a solid ground.
“Much of that goes back to the beginning of the year, maybe we would have followed a different approach, knowing that we had the season.”
Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca meanwhile spoke about the gap between herself and the teams at the top of the Premier League after the 1-0 defeat on his side at Arsenal in their last league match.
“It's pretty big,” said Maresca, when he was asked about the gap between Arsenal and Chelsea. “The reason why is because they work with the same manager for five years.
“The difference is very important. With the same players they already played for a number of important games.
“But our target, our duty is to close that gap between us and them. At the moment the table simply says the difference between us and them, it is six points, if I am not wrong.”
It is a big one at the bridge.
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Players to watch
Chelsea – Marc Cucurella
Cuccrella scored two goals in his last three league games for Chelsea, who scored for the first time in the club in the club in Back-to-Back Premier League matches for the first time in his time.
The Spaniard has also registered at least one shot in seven of his last nine league games, while he had two in his last two games.
Tottenham Hotspur son Heung-Min
This season, Son has registered nine Premier League assists, making him one way to include 10+ assists in four separate seasons in the competition (10 in each of 2019-20-20-2019, 2020-21 and 2023-24), which would be the same as the Premier League record of Christian Eriksen for Tottenham.
Son stands in the same way for the goal statements in the Premier League this season, after he has scored seven times next to his nine assists.
Match forecast: Chelsea Win
Chelsea has only lost one of their last 12 Premier League matches against Spurs (W9 D2), with their last defeat in November 2018.
Chelsea has also won their last three games in a row against Spurs with a total score of 10-4.
In fact, they have won more Premier League matches (36) and scored more Premier League goals (120) against Tottenham than they have versus any other opponent.
No side has earned fewer points this season at Premier League London Derbies than Tottenham Hotspur (10, level with Brentford), who lost five of nine of such games this season (W3 D1).
In this competition day, only Leicester (10) and Southampton (12) lost more Premier League matches this season than Tottenham Hotspur (eight). Since 2008-09, Spurs have no longer run away in one competition campaign (11).
Opta wins probability
Chelsea – 54.5%
Drawing – 21.6%
Fulham – 24%
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